A26870:143
A breviate of the life of Margaret, the daughter of Francis Charlton ... and…
A breviate of the life of Margaret, the daughter of Francis Charlton ... and wife of Richard Baxter ... : there is also published the character of her mother, truly described in her published funeral sermon, reprinted at her daughters request, called, The last work of a believer, his passing-prayer recommending his departing spirit to Christ, to be received by him.
London: printed for B. Simmons, 1681
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 5. Hence God was pleased to remove us, but by the interposition of a marvellous deliverance. The Roof of that Market-house is a vast weight, and was ill contrived to lye much on one Beam in the middle of the Floor: the place being greatly crowded, the Beam gave so great a crack as put all ⟨p. 55⟩the people in a fear. But a second crack set them all on running, and crying out at the windows for Ladders: I having seen the like before at Dunstans Fleet Street while I was preaching (which occasioned the pulling down and new building of the Church) reproved them sharply for their fears, and would have gone on to preach; but see the strange hand of God on her that set all the work on foot! After the first crack she got down the stairs through the crowd, where others could not get that were stronger. The first man she met, she asked him what Profession he was of? He said a Carpenter. Saith she, Can you suddenly put a prop under the middle of this Beam? The man dwelt close by, had a meet prop ready, suddenly put it under, while all we above knew nothing of it; but the mans knocking increased the peoples fears and cry. We were glad all to be gone; and the next morning took a skilful Workman to take up the boards, and search the Beam; which we all saw had two such rents, so long and so wide, and the sound part left was so slender, that we took it for a wonder that the house fell not suddenly.
§. 5. Hence God was pleased to remove us, but by the interposition of a marvellous deliverance. The Roof of that Market-house is a vast weight, and was ill contrived to lye much on one Beam in the middle of the Floor: the place being greatly crowded, the Beam gave so great a crack as put all ⟨p. 55⟩the people in a fear. But a second crack set them all on running, and crying out at the windows for Ladders: I having seen the like before at Dunstans Fleetstreet while I was preaching (which occasioned the pulling down and new building of the Church) reproved them sharply for their fears, and would have gone on to preach; but see the strange hand of God on her that set all the work on foot! After the first crack she got down the stairs through the crowd, where others could not get that were stronger. The first man she met, she askt him what Profession he was of? He said a Carpenter. Saith she, Can you suddenly put a prop under the middle of this Beam? The man dwelt close by, had a meet prop ready, suddenly put it under, while all we above knew nothing of it; but the mans knocking encreased the peoples fears and cry. We were glad all to be gone; and the next morning took a skilful Workman to take up the boards, and search the Beam; which we all saw had two such rents, so long and so wide, and the sound part left was so slender, that we took it for a wonder that the house fell not suddenly.